Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,212.

And 12. Today we're talking about a simple message. Find out what the players know. One of the

biggest mistakes that coaches and leaders make is assuming that they know what players are thinking,

what coaching staff is thinking, what anyone else is thinking.

They assume that they know how a player likes to learn,

what a player is worried about, what a player is thinking about,

what a player is focusing on.

But the truth is that you don't know unless you ask. As a leader, many times we think that we think we know what

other people are thinking and we expect them to know what we are thinking. Players are carrying

around thoughts and fears and preferences

and patterns that you'll never access or have access to unless you create the space for them to

share, the environment for them to feel safe to disclose what is on their mind. They know what is working for them. They know what

frustrates them. They know what is on their mind. They know what they don't, what they are having

hard time learning. They know what makes them feel confident. They know what they're focusing on.

They know what's confusing them. They know more than we oftentimes

give them credit for. But the thing is, they're not going to come to you as a leader or as a

coach and volunteer that information. Most players are, it's on the tip of their tongue,

but they're waiting for you to ask. And so the burden is actually on the leader. It's on the coach. It's on the tip of their tongue, but they're waiting for you to ask. And so the burden is actually on

the leader. It's on the coach. It's on the team captain. It's on the person who is leading the group.

Some good questions to ask them is, what's on your mind? What are you working on? How do you learn best?

What are you feeling about this drill? who's a coach that you connected best with

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